News is new information or current events. The reporting of news falls into the field of journalism. News can be reported by a variety of sources, such as newspapers, television and radio programs, wire services, and web sites. News reporting is a type of journalism, typically written or broadcast in news style. Most news is investigated and presented by journalists and can be distributed to various sites via news agencies. If the content of news is significant enough, it eventually becomes history.

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Newsworthiness

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To be considered newsworthy, an event usually must have broad interest due to one or more news values:-

• Effect (how many people were, are or will be affected?)
• Timeliness (did the event occur very recently?)
• Revelation (is there significant new information, previously unknown?)
• Proximity (was the event nearby geographically?)

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Offbeat and funny financial news - CNNMoney.com

Apple and Eve
Mon, 12 May 2008 08:08:14 -0400
In Pixar Films' upcoming animation epic, "Wall-E," the title character is a cute but clunky robot whose centuries of solitude on an abandoned Earth is broken by the arrival of a svelte, futuristic robot named Eve - who is so white, gleaming, and well, pod-like, that she looks like she was born in Apple's design room. It turns out that she was - sort of: Eve marks the first design collaboration within Steve Jobs' culture-shaping Apple-Pixar-Disney axis. (Jobs sold Pixar to Disney and is Disney's largest shareholder as well as the CEO of Apple.)
Why 'Iron Man' will outmuscle the 'Hulk'
Thu, 01 May 2008 15:32:09 -0400
On Friday, Marvel Entertainment releases "Iron Man," the saga of Tony Stark, a hard-drinking, amoral war-profiteer who redeems himself by donning high-tech armor and trouncing bad guys. Marvel is in the midst of a similar redemption.
Indiana Jones and the box office slump
Fri, 02 May 2008 11:59:08 -0400
It's been a rough start for the movie industry this year. And despite some big sequels (Indy's back!) there are concerns that this could be a cruel summer for Hollywood.

Reuters: Oddly Enough

Icelandic museum offers long and short of male organ
Thu, 15 May 2008 12:06:40 -0400
HUSAVIK, Iceland (Reuters) - Sigurdur Hjartarson is missing a human penis. But he's not worried: four men have promised to donate theirs to him when they die.
"No, after you - I'm just here to rob the place!"
Thu, 15 May 2008 10:23:06 -0400
SYDNEY (Reuters) - A man politely waited his turn in a queue at a busy central Sydney post office before jumping over the counter, grabbing money from two tills and running off, police said on Thursday.
Wedding day fireworks land groom in jail
Thu, 15 May 2008 10:23:39 -0400
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Bridegroom Kedir Mohamed wanted his wedding day to go with a bang and decided to celebrate by letting off firecrackers after the ceremony.

Bizarre Bazaar

Telling It Like It Is
ABC News Thu, 15 May 2008 10:59:50 -0400
The whole point of being a journalist is to let the world know about stories that are important -- particularly stories where something bad is happening that could, potentially, be stopped or alleviated by outside intervention. So it has been...
ESCAPING NORTH
zzaki Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:12:05 -0400
We flew up to the Kurdish north of Iraq recently – it is always a welcome release for us to go up north, where security is so much better. After a day in Erbil, the main city, we drove across...
Franklin in Fallujah
ABC News Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:40:57 -0400
We were walking down the main street of Fallujah the other day -- a fact remarkable in itself, given all that has gone on in that benighted town over the past five years -- when we came across a man...

WTOP / Water Cooler / Watercooler Stories

DNA tests exonerate 'Lizard Man' in van attack

Baby subpoenaed for unpaid chiropractor bill

Pair say they attacked each other with frying pan

Police say men trying to steal power lines shocked

Parked car thwarts purse-snatcher in Iowa

Campaign mailing in Ark. race screams 'Judas!'


CNEWS Weird News

Ken Griffey Jr. pays off debt to teammate Josh Fogg in pennies
Thu, 15 May 2008 19:34:00 -0400
CINCINNATI - Ken Griffey Jr. owed Cincinnati Reds teammate Josh Fogg US$1,500, and paying by cheque just wouldn't do.
Hummer drives on top of police car in Markham, Ont., after break-and-enter
Thu, 15 May 2008 16:06:00 -0400
MARKHAM, Ont. - Three people from the Toronto area are facing several charges after they allegedly fled a break-and-enter scene in a Hummer and then drove into a pair of police cars.
World's smallest chopper to fly at da Vinci's birthplace
Thu, 15 May 2008 12:49:00 -0400
TOKYO - A Japanese man who developed the world's smallest helicopter plans a demonstration flight in the birthplace of Leonardo da Vinci later this month.

Exploding Cigar

Man faces prison for attacking boy with a hedgehog
Kaboom! Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:05:44 -0000
A 27-year-old man faces a possible 5 years in prison after attacking a 15-year-old boy with a hedgehog.
India develops curry hand grenade
Kaboom! Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:04:13 -0000
India has developed a new nonlethal weapon in the war on terror: the curry hand grenade.
Children in poor countries need more toilets
Kaboom! Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:56:44 -0000
UN Agencies for world health and children are underscoring the need for more toilets for children in poor countries.

ABC News: Offbeat

Plunging necklines a no-no at masses
Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:03:00 +1000
The Catholic Church has issued guidelines on what Filipinos should wear to mass in Manila after some parishioners complained about distracting skimpy attire.
Skinny dipper seized at tourism icon
Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:34:00 +1000
A 22-year-old American man has been arrested after an early-morning naked bath in the historic Barcaccia fountain at the foot of Rome's Spanish Steps, an Italian news agency reports.
Church calls on 'Simpsons' to help reach teens
Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:36:00 +1000
A Church of England-backed book suggests youth workers should try to make religion relevant to children by showing them episodes of cartoon show The Simpsons.

AHN - offbeat news and headlines

Breaking News
Up to the minute breaking news and headlines.
Pesticide Defying Hordes Of Ants Invade Houston (AHN)
(AHN) - Rasberry ants have invaded Houston homes, eating electrical wires, destroying computers and defying pesticides. - Thu, 15 May 2008 17:35:15 GMT (AHN)
Crime Involving Young British Girls Up Dramatically In Just Three Years (AHN)
(AHN) - British girls between the ages 10 to 17 have increased their share of criminal acts with 59,236 incidents reported in 2006-07. The figure represents a 25 percent jump from 47,358 young girl crimes in 2003-04. - Thu, 15 May 2008 16:44:10 GMT (AHN)

AP Top Strange News At 6:54 p.m. EDT

DNA tests exonerate 'Lizard Man' in van attack
Thu, 15 May 2008 22:54:35 -0000
BISHOPVILLE, S.C. (AP) -- DNA testing has shown an attack on a family van some blamed on the legendary Lizard Man appears to have been actually done by a domestic dog. Something chewed up the front fender of Bob and Dixie Rawson's van in February. Bite marks were left on the wheel wells and blood was found on the vehicle....
Baby subpoenaed for unpaid chiropractor bill
Thu, 15 May 2008 22:53:17 -0000
HARRISONBURG, Va. (AP) -- A Harrisonburg court has dismissed a case against a baby boy summoned to appear in court for an unpaid bill. Richard White said he was shocked when he got a subpoena in the mail requiring his 1-year-old son, Jacy, to appear in Rockingham County General District Court next Tuesday over a $391 chiropractor bill....
Pair say they attacked each other with frying pan
Thu, 15 May 2008 22:47:42 -0000
CROSSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Out of the frying pan and into the fire. That's pretty much what happened to a Cumberland County couple arrested and charged with whacking each other with a frying pan....

WMTW.com - Irresistible News

Navy Bomb Misses By Mile, Starts Woods Fire
Thu, 15 May 2008 12:37:14 -0400
A laser-guided Navy bomb veered off course, landing in a forest in Florida and causing a fire.
Back Pain Could Really Be Bra Pain
Thu, 15 May 2008 09:01:31 -0400
If you have marks on your shoulders when your bra comes off, you could be giving yourself a pain in the back.
Take Your Gun Out For Dinner Says Ga. Law
Thu, 15 May 2008 12:30:28 -0400
Georgia gun owners can now bring their weapons to restaurants, busses and parks under a new law.

PR-inside.com News

Youtube Video: Paris Hilton gets cut in half
Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:39:34 -0000
(PR-inside.com) Illusionist and master magician Curtis Eugene Lovell II cuts Paris Hilton in half on Season 4 of the Simple Life. A clip of the television program can be seen on Youtube.com: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gffpnYPh21U. and#8232;For more tricks of the trade, Lovell has released an instructional DVD that teaches magic titled POOF! You're a magician ~Learn magic with everyday objects. His DVD can be found at www.BN.com, Target.com, or www.POOFyoureamagician.com. Please visit www.MagicofCurtis.com for more information on Curtis Eugene Lovell II. For interviews/bookings please contact: 877.224.9568 USA. Mini-Bio: Escape artist, illusionist, and master magician Curtis Eugene Lovell II dreamed of becoming a magician ever since a coin ..
Conjuring up a bride for the reception
Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:38:20 -0000
(PR-inside.com)   Illusionist Curtis Eugene Lovell II offers his expertise to make wedding receptions even more magical. For the bride and groom who truly want their wedding to be the experience of a lifetime, Lovell offers the ultimate production.   As the lights dim, the guests grow quiet, expecting the bride and groom to enter through the door.  Instead fog rolls in and away, revealing a dancer holding a torch and standing next to an empty cage.  In the next moment, magician Lovell mysteriously appears and -- with a few magical motions set to upbeat music -- the cage is lit with a flame and a whip of a cloth.  Magically, the bride and groom appear and are introduced ..
Mehdi Jaffari's miraculous survival leads to Life Clinic
Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:51:36 -0000
(PR-inside.com) Spiritual and health counsellor Mehdi Jaffari of the Life Clinic in Sydney does not perform miracles for his clients but says it is a miracle he escaped his homeland and lived to serve people at all. Mehdi says he narrowly escaped being hanged and shot by a firing squad during a revolution in Iran in 1979. Being a refugee from a revolution and a survivor of several heart attacks years later in Australia, Mehdi says it is a miracle he is even alive. Several brushes with death and a near-death experience have given him a strong faith in God, he says, which inspires ..

This is True

THIS is TRUE #725: 4 May
Sat, 10 May 2008 03:44:57 -0000
SINCE 1994 and reaching more than 110,000 readers in over 200 countries, this is the 725th weekly issue of... THIS is TRUE: 4 May 2008 Copyright http://www.thisistrue.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- LEARN 'EM GOOD: Michelle Droelle, 33, a teacher at Kellam High School in Virginia Beach, Va., claims she got out of the escort business before she became a teacher. But, a local newspaper found, at least one escort To read the full text of this week's issue see This is True's -- weird news stories. Large portions of True are archived on the web, including the This is True story archive, the Honorary Unsubscribe, and the Bonzer Web Site of the Week. This is True covers bizarre-but-true stories from newspapers from around the world. True is also the source of the (in)famous Get Out of Hell Free cards, the well-edited humor site Jumbo Joke, and is the publisher of the True Stella Awards, featuring case write-ups of crazy lawsuits. Special Note from True's 13 March 2005 issue: Bad News, Good News: The bad news is, the RSS feed for True's free edition was being abused: people were using scripts to post the text to their web sites automatically, despite very clear prohibitions against that. Since people wouldn't stop that abuse, I stopped it -- by not putting the full text in the RSS feed anymore. It sucks that a few idiots spoiled it for everyone, but that's the way it is. True depends on its copyright to stay in business, and I just can't have people stealing it like that. I offer all sorts of neat things for free, including the "True-a-Day" service for you to put a story on your own web sites that automatically changes every day, a free archive of past stories, this free subscription, and lots more. Yet some just can't be satisfied with that and take more than what's offered. That is indeed stealing, folks, and those of you who post stories on your web sites, post them to Usenet, print them in newsletters, and more threaten True's very existence. And that matters to me. It's not a "victimless crime"! I'm very generous with my work, but I must draw the line somewhere. The "where" is up to me, not you, and if you're one who's stealing it and can't deal with that fact, then stop reading my stuff. The GOOD news is, I'm very sympathetic to the vast majority -- those who want to stay within the rules, to not cross the line, to not steal. A lot of you try hard to subscribe and get the issues by e-mail, but have difficulty, either because you only have a work e-mail address and are not allowed to subscribe to e-mail publications, or your ISP filters out the e-mail you asked to get, even while you still get loads of spam. Thus, as of last week I have started posting the current issue on the True web site so you can read it via the web. Not only that, but because very often the letters in the current issue refer to the previous one, I'm also posting the previous issue on the True web site. They automatically rotate, and the RSS feed is now a notification of the new postings, keeping the RSS option a useful feature. To find the current issue, look in the Navbar on the True site. The previous issue is linked from the current one's page. (That Navbar is pretty handy: it has links to the True-a-Day service, the archive, the Reader Forum, the Bonzer and Honorary Unsubscribe archives, site search and a lot more. The site is pretty big, but it's well organized -- if you take the time to explore it and use the tools provided to find what you want.)
THIS is TRUE #724: 27 April
Sat, 03 May 2008 03:46:28 -0000
To read the full text of this week's issue see This is True's -- weird news stories. Large portions of True are archived on the web, including the This is True story archive, the Honorary Unsubscribe, and the Bonzer Web Site of the Week. This is True covers bizarre-but-true stories from newspapers from around the world. True is also the source of the (in)famous Get Out of Hell Free cards, the well-edited humor site Jumbo Joke, and is the publisher of the True Stella Awards, featuring case write-ups of crazy lawsuits. Special Note from True's 13 March 2005 issue: Bad News, Good News: The bad news is, the RSS feed for True's free edition was being abused: people were using scripts to post the text to their web sites automatically, despite very clear prohibitions against that. Since people wouldn't stop that abuse, I stopped it -- by not putting the full text in the RSS feed anymore. It sucks that a few idiots spoiled it for everyone, but that's the way it is. True depends on its copyright to stay in business, and I just can't have people stealing it like that. I offer all sorts of neat things for free, including the "True-a-Day" service for you to put a story on your own web sites that automatically changes every day, a free archive of past stories, this free subscription, and lots more. Yet some just can't be satisfied with that and take more than what's offered. That is indeed stealing, folks, and those of you who post stories on your web sites, post them to Usenet, print them in newsletters, and more threaten True's very existence. And that matters to me. It's not a "victimless crime"! I'm very generous with my work, but I must draw the line somewhere. The "where" is up to me, not you, and if you're one who's stealing it and can't deal with that fact, then stop reading my stuff. The GOOD news is, I'm very sympathetic to the vast majority -- those who want to stay within the rules, to not cross the line, to not steal. A lot of you try hard to subscribe and get the issues by e-mail, but have difficulty, either because you only have a work e-mail address and are not allowed to subscribe to e-mail publications, or your ISP filters out the e-mail you asked to get, even while you still get loads of spam. Thus, as of last week I have started posting the current issue on the True web site so you can read it via the web. Not only that, but because very often the letters in the current issue refer to the previous one, I'm also posting the previous issue on the True web site. They automatically rotate, and the RSS feed is now a notification of the new postings, keeping the RSS option a useful feature. To find the current issue, look in the Navbar on the True site. The previous issue is linked from the current one's page. (That Navbar is pretty handy: it has links to the True-a-Day service, the archive, the Reader Forum, the Bonzer and Honorary Unsubscribe archives, site search and a lot more. The site is pretty big, but it's well organized -- if you take the time to explore it and use the tools provided to find what you want.)

NakedFly

North Korea Testing Japan
It appears that North Korea is testing the waters of Japan... literally.
It's Comin' Straight For Us!
Solar ejections are hitting the earth causing the northern lights to stretch all the way down to California.
Benzene Killing Arafat?
Here's a conspiracy for you. Arafat was poisoned with Benzene, talk amongst yourselves.

Reuters: Oddly Enough

Icelandic museum offers long and short of male organ
Thu, 15 May 2008 11:32:32 +0100
HUSAVIK, Iceland (Reuters) - Sigurdur Hjartarson is missing a human penis. But he's not worried: four men have promised to donate theirs to him when they die.
Canadian pierces lover's heart in botched sex game
Thu, 15 May 2008 17:56:27 +0100
OTTAWA (Reuters) - A Canadian man who asked his lover to carve a heart-shaped symbol on his chest during a rough sex game almost died when she accidentally pressed too hard and punctured his heart, a newspaper said on Thursday.
Green aliens and UFOs said to visit UK
Wed, 14 May 2008 11:13:03 +0100
LONDON (Reuters) - Aliens from outer space have been visiting Britain for years and UFO sightings doubled after the film Close Encounters was released in 1977, according to secret files collating reports by members of the public.

HoustonChronicle.com -- News Bizarre

With pet cremation, Fido can come back as a flower
More and more pet owners are opting to have their pets cremated. Although ashes may be scattered or kept as a memorial, technology has given pet owners new options, such as processing some of the cremains into a gemstone, crystal or, ultimately, a flower.
Minor league baseball team offers a prize to die for
The Grand Prairie AirHogs minor league baseball team will award a prize no one will be eager to cash in on right away.
Toddler left behind in frantic rush to catch plane
An immigrant family left a 23-month-old boy in the Vancouver airport and learned he was missing only when contacted during the next leg of the trip.

Sky News | Strange News | First For Breaking News

Australian Driver Puts Seatbelt Round Crate Of Beer rather Than Child
An Australian driver has been fined for putting a seatbelt around a crate of beer instead of a five-year-old who was travelling in the car.
Drunk Darth Vader Uses Too Much Force On Jedi Church Founders
A man who dressed up as Darth Vader and attacked the founder of Britain's first Jedi church has been spared from going to jail.
Prisoner Escapes From New Zealand Jail After Knotting Sheets Together To Create Rope
Red-faced prison bosses in New Zealand are hunting an inmate who escaped using a classic movie technique.

MiamiHerald.com: Weird News

9-year-old girl's twin is found inside her stomach
Thu, 15 May 2008 19:50:00 -0400
A 9-year-old girl who went to hospital in central Greece suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctors said Thursday.
DNA tests exonerate 'Lizard Man' in van attack
Thu, 15 May 2008 19:00:00 -0400
DNA testing has shown an attack on a family van some blamed on the legendary Lizard Man appears to have been actually done by a domestic dog. Something chewed up the front fender of Bob and Dixie Rawson's van in February. Bite marks were left on the wheel wells and blood was found on the vehicle.
Baby subpoenaed for unpaid chiropractor bill
Thu, 15 May 2008 18:55:00 -0400
A Harrisonburg court has dismissed a case against a baby boy summoned to appear in court for an unpaid bill. Richard White said he was shocked when he got a subpoena in the mail requiring his 1-year-old son, Jacy, to appear in Rockingham County General District Court next Tuesday over a $391 chiropractor bill.

CNN.com - Funny News

Gamers prove their metal as rock stars
Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:27:09 -0500
Jess Hu is a child care provider from Brooklyn, New York, but for 20 hours a week, she's a rock star. That's how much she estimates she plays the video game "Rock Band."
Comedian is living in an Ikea store
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:23:26 -0500
Read full story for latest details.
Texas town hopes to become UFO landing spot
Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:39:56 -0500


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